The Infertility Voice™

Dr. Fertilitylove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love My Family

I had an outing scheduled with my niece. she’s my niece by marriage and my goddaughter. My relationship with her isn’t as … Read More »

This Year

By Ashley Rittman

December can feel like such a colossal failure when you're trying to start a family. You begin the year hoping that by … Read More »

Lessons in Healing

By Melissa Miles Carter

I am a stepmother and mother of a daughter who died of SIDS in 2003, and had an ectopic pregnancy in 2004. I have also … Read More »

ASK AN EGG DONOR™ With Alicia Young

By Alicia Young

Welcome to ASK AN EGG DONOR™ – excerpts from my monthly, chatty column where you’re invited to ask me anything about egg … Read More »

The PCOS Journey Never Ends: It Goes On and On…

By Guest Blogger

Welcome to the 2014 Voices of PCOS blog series at The Infertility Voice, in honor of PCOS Awareness Month! The PCOS … Read More »

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

By Guest Blogger

Guest Post by Candyce Pelfrey Kannengieser I had not always wanted children. I wasn’t born maternal. I did not like … Read More »

The Untethered Boat of Pregnancy and Parenting After Infertility

Mar. 26, 2013

If you're here from BlogHer, welcome!Find out how you can join the movement for National Infertility Awareness Week. Yesterday, I talked about how I'm battling prenatal depression. Today, I want to talk a little more broadly about the liminal … Read More »

Made the Blogroll!

Apr. 10, 2009

Thanks much to Melissa over at Stirrup Queens! I just made the IF blogroll over there, so I'm looking forward to lots more clickers :) SQ has been so helpful in finding other experiences and stories similar to my own, so I hope my story here can also … Read More »

Anyone else feeling that holiday funk?

Dec. 15, 2010

At first I thought it was just me, but a friend on Facebook posted a link that shed some light on the situation.I blame Mercury.Professor Trelawney would agree.Mercury is in retrograde right now (trust me, I'm sure). In a nutshell, Mercury is the … Read More »

Challenge Accepted: A Glucose Challenge Rage Comic Tale

Dec. 27, 2012

Turns out I've got a history of gestational diabetes in my family. So naturally, this means a baseline glucose challenge test WAY earlier than most people. "Piece of cake," I thought, naively - and pardon the pun. So a few weeks ago, I had … Read More »

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